Martin among the prospects for chief justice

The Liberal government is considering appointing Supreme Court nominee Sheilah Martin of Alberta — a bilingual anglophone who was born and raised in Quebec where she earned both civil law and common law degrees — as Canada’s 18th chief justice, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould informed MPs this week.

Justice Sheilah MartinSo far most of the public speculation about the country’s next chief justice has focused on two bilingual francophones from Quebec, Justices Richard Wagner and Suzanne Côté, and on Ontario’s Justice Rosalie Abella, the top court’s senior...